Paru Tea Bar and Enclave Café open new locations in San Diego

More! Restaurants! Please! Paru Tea Bar and Enclave Café open second locations

Amy Truong, left, and Lani Gobaleza in their new Paru Tea Bar in La Jolla.

Nov. 22, 2021 1 PM PT

Paru Tea Bar, a specialty Asian tea shop that opened its first location two years ago in Point Loma, expanded to La Jolla this week with a new location at 7441 Girard Ave. that opened Monday. The shop, owned by LGBTQ couple Amy Truong and Lani Gobaleza, serves and sells hot, cold and packaged loose leaf teas, matcha and herbal teas from throughout the world, particularly Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, South Africa, the Philippines and Laos. It also sells tea-related merchandise. Visit paruteabar.com.

A selection of menu items at Enclave Cafe.

Enclave Café, a healthy superfood restaurant headquartered in Scripps Ranch, opened its second location on Nov. 1 at the Westfield UTC shopping center. The new 60-seat location, at 4655 Executive Drive, Suite 100, San Diego, will gradually expand to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. Menu specialties include poke bowls, pho, fried chicken and waffles, salads, sandwiches and more. Visit adventuroussuperfood.com.

Pam Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.